On the occasion of a debate on the subject on Tuesday, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and her government unveiled the guidelines of their Immigration Bill. > By Jeremiah Lamothe
If he was still doubted, the government is now warned. In a hemicycle where it has only a relative majority, its route will be particularly close to reaching oppositions, whether right or left, on its immigration bill which must be presented in early 2023.
The debate on migration policy, organized Tuesday, December 6 in the National Assembly, to allow parliamentary groups to reveal their proposals on this text was a new illustration. For almost four hours, the speakers of the Les Républicains (LR) party, those of the National Rally (RN) and those of the left especially took the opportunity to criticize in unison the balance sheet on the immigration of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and to castigate the first orientations of the bill unveiled by the executive.
In the preamble to this series of speeches, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, tried to defend a “balanced text”: if “France is and will remain faithful to its tradition of asylum”, it must be able ” To say whoever we want “and” who we don’t want to “welcome. “We are not trying to cleave or multiply only symbolic measures,” she warned since the gallery of the National Assembly, affirming, intended for the benches of the extreme right and the new popular, ecological union, and social (clutters), that “zero immigration is neither desirable, nor possible, and is not more realistic than is a deregulated immigration”.
If the government ensures that the text, which, according to him, will combine “firmness and humanity”, is not yet finalized, three ministers – Gérald Darmanin (interior), Olivier Dussopt (work) and Catherine Colonna (Foreign Affairs) – developed its broad outlines on Tuesday.
On the first part of this bill, Gérald Darmanin, quickly displayed his ambition on Tuesday: “Let those who commit crimes and crimes realize that they cannot remain on the national territory.” For the Minister of the Interior, who began his speech by quoting the nationalist author and Figure of Action Française Jacques Bainville (1879-1936) provoking the protests of “rebellious”, “too many specifically French rules prevent expelling a criminal on our soil “.
Strengthen integration by work
Gérald Darmanin thus hopes that the law will allow “no longer censor us” by leaving “to judges to measure whether private and family life and the right to stay [governed by article 8 of the European Convention of human rights] are compatible with delinquency acts that will be made to women and children, violence on police, gendarmes or firefighters “.
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